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Be I in tot. tig D." in". 'arty we. I”. the late! I bo next alts ll. pr- (1| J r0. SO.- . wall "t death 10 Mr "do Why wilt and m. " ugh!- 18- l, M. , I. m MI rrtt. " n II. I toll f»: tet Kin. he. trac- and mid. Ma te, M It. od. be " In If to 1tttstosrtamoN--We come now to Paul's second missionary journey. Mad Poul gone East inqtead of West. Chinese churches would prowl, be sending missionaries today to eval- gelize Ae natives of Britain and Am- erica. As it is, into our western hands has been committed the missionary onte'prise. I. A masons!) emummr, Acts 15: 36-41. After accepting the Jerusalem com- promise. the church in Antioch had pence. Paul 3n; unit: free for mis- tsion work. Her' longed to no the Gal- utian converts once more. v. M. This personal affection and concern for his converts was one of the most Attrac- tire features in Paul’s character. It appears in the inter; which he wrote altervu'ds. "With mat desire" he would see their faces (1 Thesa. 2: 17). “night and day praying exceed- ingly" lat he might see them, 2 Tess. 3: 10. Also, he recognized the im- portance of "following up" work br ' God makes the wrath of man to praise him; two missionary enter- prises. instead of one, were thus set on foot. M. GALATIA mama: THIGH-W, Acts 16: 1-5. After winning his fight for Geny.le freedom from circumcision, Paul cir- cumcized Timothy. Why? Timothy (v. 1), whom he himself had been the means of converting and of whom he was very fond, Paul would take with him, v. 3. But Timothy was uncir- cumcised. Being part: Jew, he mold rsasonahly be expected to come under the Jewish requirements. The mis- sionaries would generally lodge in tre Jewish quarters of the cities they would visit. They would begin their work in the synagogues. The pres- ence of the uncircumcised Timothy would he otrenive to the Jews, em- barrassing to Timothy himself, and a hindrance to the work. Paul, there- fore, since no principle was at stake, had Timothy circumcised, v. 3. III-How PAUL YURNED wear. Acts 16: 6-15. To the north lay Bithynia with its populous. cities. Thither Paul turned. Agai the "Spint of Jesus" (the 'or- not rendintt of v. T) forbade. The har. voat of Bithynia was not for Paul, but for Peter, 1 Peter 1: l. The only course left open for the missionaries now was westward to Troas, v. tr. For. bidden to preach ther3--for it was part of the forbidden Asia, they had not much choice; it was either to re- turn home or cross the sea to Mace- donia. which is today part of modern Greece. At the critics moment came a turning point in history. Paul's vi- sion was the birthrhouCet,1tt,Ct Then came the unhappy disagree mene between the two leaders. Bar- nabas would take John Mark attain. Paul, setting out upon a journey like.. ly to be difheult tad dangerous. would have nothing to do with one who had already failed him. Barnabas, per- haps unconsciously placing his kindly feelings wward his nephew before the interests of the work, V13 adamant. Unable to agree. they divided the field between -them. Barnubu "ould take Mark and co to Cyprus. Paul, select- init Silas (15: 22), would go north overland to the cities previously visited. . Barnabas new disappears from the record. The church at Antioch agreed with Paul. v. 40. It seems inexpress-' ibly sad. Paul owed a great deal to Barnabas, 9: 27; ll: M, 26. His allev- tionate nature must save been deeply pained. It was a time when he felt that for Christ he must suffer loss of tverythiyr--4ylen friendghip, Phil. 32‘ '7, 8. That friendship, however, ems restored later, 1 Cor. 9: 6. Even Mark eventually won his eoMdenee (2 Tim. 4: li), but thefaro leaders never worked together train, civilization and western Christianity. Paul was evidently thinking and pray- ing about. Macedonia. Petups, as Ramsay suggests, a Dr. Luke meeting the tnvelers in the hotel at Tress, had suggesjaqd Macedonia to him. in nuu BU‘SCBWU .v-.---_-..V__ _, any case. falling asleep to the swish of the sea, 1'r.u {lunged a dream. v. l. A masons» autumn", Acts l5: 36-41. . M. 0mm mam: HHMHY. Arts 16: 1-5. m. now PAUL 1mm was-r, Aets br. 6-15. Ok HI: scan. . ..-. ...-_.V,,, 9. He took it to be a divine id So did the! all, -. 10. gm attee, ANALYSIS Although new in this connection. the title of provost is an old one. It is applied to the heads of certain colleges, such as Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and to the chief magistrates ot clti d boroughs In Scotland. There the title is equiva- lent to that of - yor in England. and that ot Lord Provost to Lord Mayor. There are Bre lord proroata---the chlel magistrates of Edinburgh, Glasgow. Aberdeen, Perth and mundee. The title In to carry with it the precedence accorded to the dean of a cathedral. A new ecclesiastical title is to make its appearartee--that of "Provost," which is to be borne by the Incum- bonts of parish church cathedrals. such as Birminglvctn, Bradford, Lei. cester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, and Btteftitrtd. BY ANNEBEHE WORTHINGTON The jacket dress, so splendid fer school wear, has a definite smartness and practicality too, for it is equally attractive when the jacket is dis- carded. This jaunty model is delightfully carried oat in yacht blue linen. And to be ultra-smart, it trims its jacket with blue linen overplaided in deeper shade. The dress repeats the trim in bows at the front, and for the modish cape sleeves. The skirt is so cute 'm box-plait effect at the front and cir- cular at the back. Style No. 3145 may be had in sizes 6, 8, 10. 12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 3% yards of 39-lnch material with % yard of 35-inch con- trusting. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and addresa plain. ly, giving number and size of such patterns " you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Putnam Service, " West Adelaide St. Toronto. Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Numberless fabrics are suitable for this swagger outfit as rayon novelties, Jersey and supple woolens in tweed effect. After; good plunge. carefully re- ported by Lake, who ilrnov one of the party and acquainted with the sea. the pissiomtiee arrived in Philippi early In the week. Philippe' had few Jews and no snugogue. Paul found aome women holding a prayer-meeting try the river. Among then he began his "venture of faith." Lydia became one of his lemons converts. The evangel- .ution of Europe had begun. So, by hintirpnees, embarrassments. apps:- ently sinister' expetiences, God "sets our feet in steps that lead us upward yet." . To be just right, the clothes of the growing miss must have a bit of dash. What New York ls Wearing Enter the ProVost i There have always been floods and there always will be. There is evi. idence, nevertheless, that no such mighty flood over before marched ‘down the Mississippi as the one of itour years ago. And now the Yangtse its reported to have surpassed its own Jong record of deluges, covering more than 4,000 years of recorded history. ( What Wasteful Erosion Means V When soil is washed out ot tttsid, it |cannot be hauled back, nor can it be restored with fertilizers or soil-im- iproving crops. It can be improved, to l be sure. but soil like the virgin surface llayer, which averages only about nine :inches Jeerr ove'r the uplands at the '.eountrf, cannot be built back to its Iterminal condition. With some of the limportant agricultural soils of the icountry it has taken nature not less Ithan 400 years to build one single inch ot this productive 1surnusrcltarged eur- Ilace material, the principal repository G' available plant food and the abid- ling place ot incredible hosts ot bene- ',fleitU microorganisms. One ot China's greatest BCoure- the ftood--iq again spreading death and destruction over a wide area, writes Hugh Hammond Bennett in The N.Y. Times. What is the reason "or these periodic visitation entailing ‘great loss of lite and vast property damage? In China's recurring mis- tortunes there is a warning to younger ‘clviiizations. especially to America; ‘ior although in China with its densely lpopulated lands the flood waters are imore appalling in their results, the processes which are there at work are also to he found as a menace to the future ot the United States. China's history of floods is volumin- ous beyond comprehension. After 4,000 years ot building levees and dig. ging canals, the great Yellow River broke over its banks in 1877 in an ap- palling overflow that brought death to 1,000,000 human beings. in 1852 this swollen Titan changed its lower Chan. nei to enter the ocean 300 miles north ot its mouth on the Yellow Sea. The Yellow Bea, a part of the m.’ eitic Ocean, is colored with silt smut down trom slopes tar up the Yangtse Kiang and Whang Ho, whose water-i, sheds once were clothed with forests and grass. Stripped ot these stabiliz- ing agencies in nature, countless slop-E ing areas were cultivated without pro-i tection against the evils ot rain-wash,i a process which has altered the sur- face of the earth more than the can»! bined activities ot volcanoes. earth-', quakes, tidal waves, tornadoes and all, the excavations of mankind since the, beginning ot history. Every rain heavy enough to cause water to run: downhill carries its toll ot suspended. Isoil. eating away the substance at the ‘land down into the less stable subg Istrata, where the destructive process speeds on at accelerated pace. Under l nature's stabilizers ot forest, shrub- bery and grass, erosion works slowly; I with these removed by man and his do" lmestlc animals the wastage is vastly i increased. l Destructive Floods , Cause of Erosion China's Diaster Warning to Countries: Being Denud... ed of Forests Not on' is the more productive Gross, a water riding converted in the thing for mechanic ot Berlin, has conceived this new idea. of a automobile. With special equipment any auto can be a period ot " minutes into a sea-going hack. Just detours. - A Novel Idea I It takes just seven years under con- }tinuous corn cultivation in Northern (Missouri and Southern Iowa tor one Much ot an important type or rolling ‘corn-belt soil to wash " land of gent- !ly sloping topography. On steeper Hand. that having a tall ot eight feet iin a linear distance ot a hundred feet, ithe rate of removal is one inch in one year. In other words, under the pro. ‘valllng system of corn production in this region the most productive part of the land, the seven inches consti- 3tuting the top-soil, is being washed (away within from seven to forty-nine Wears. Here the virgin soil produced iin good years seventy-five bushels of I corn per acre; the exposed subsoil pro- 'duces at the rate of about twenty . bushels per acre. l, The plant food removed from the fields and pastures of America every year by erosion exceeds by twenty- . one times that removed by the crops fharvested. That taken by crops can he restored In the form of fertilizer, Ibut that removed by eroglou cannot We restored, because this malevolent {process takes the whole body ot the 'soll, plant food and all. 11rfr, removed by unchecked washing, but the exposed subsoil which now must be (armed, or abandoned. in more dimcult to till because ot its usual high Icontent of stilt clay; it nbsorba mois- ture Mower than the mellow loam now Igone and given it up faster with the :increa'sed baking ot dry weather. le,",,?,,',?,'," the washing ta speeded up in many 10:11ities; and it is at this 'stage ot land depletion that gullying iusually sets in. Over the less absorp- =tive eroded slopes water flows away liiiii, increased rapidity to augment Gia.,. Notwithstanding the vast continuing losses caused by erosion, we are not yet on the verge ot i land shortage. in spite ot the appalling wastage. we are confronted with the anomalous situation of having on our hands large cr0pe surpluses. With increasing use of fertilizers and soil-improving crops, together with the abandonment ot worn-out land tor land still retaining some at its topsoil, we continue to ,produce abundantly. In many locali- ties, however, yields have dwindled 'markedly. Wit', all the improvement which has been made with corn varie- ties and the widespread betterment ot cultural methods, our acreage yield ot corn has not increased. This means, obviously, that we are still cultivating much land ot interior quality. . The United States Department of Agriculture, cooperating with the States, has recently inaugurated a. na. tional program ot soil conservation. Already much has been accomplished with field terraces, and experiments under way indicate that strip-cropping ---that is, the growing ot soil-saving crops in strips along the slopes, alter- nately with the clean-tilled eroIm--wil1 prove tremendously important. A soil- saving culttivator recently devised at one ot these experiment stations digs 10,000 holes to every acre, while oper- ating as rapidly as any practical tarnr implement. These excavations hold', on each acre ot land aproximately tro,-' 000 gallons of water, thus preventing runoff and erosion from numerous1 rains. l Grer--"How long has Meekleigh been married'." ' . "Gretytte-"Por twenty awed yeah." Huberta. Whose Long Trek Through Town and Coun- try Endeared Her to Thousands, Rests in a Museum Cape Towtt.-rn the Kaffrarian Mus- eum at King Williams: Town there stands a hippopotamus that gave South Africa thrill after thrill tor more than two years. For this enor- mous stuffed hide was once Huberta the Hippo-the famous roving animal that was looked upon by white South Africans as a friend and by natives " the reincarnation of a great chief. Her greatest eseatr"' followed. She called at a hotel just outside Durban one night. appeared suddenly and gave some ot the habitues a severe nervous shock. After this, however. she do clded that she was eoming too closely Flags were tiowa at half-mast in Durban on the tragic day when the "atttuMraimstion' 'ot Huberta became known. Pour farmers convicted of the deed were each sentenced to a. titttt of " or three months' hard labor. A wave ot protest swept through the country, and a museum director wrote: "t have entirely despaired ot human nature. There are some peo- ple who cannot see an interesting specimen without itching to “he a pot shot at it." How did Huberta the Hippo capture the election of the whole ot South Africa! It is a diverting story. To realize the sensation caused every- where by the appearance ot Huberta, it must be understood that South Atri. ea-apart trom a few game preserves --u no longer a wonderland ot big game. Thousands ot people living in the cities have never seen game ani- mals execpt in captivity. So when. in November, 1928. a full-grown hippo- potamus strolled into the village ot New Guelderlatrd, titty miles trom Dur, ban, the event received large head. lines in all the newspapers. Huherta Makes Debut Indians and natives working in the fields of sugarcane were the first to raise the alarm. They heard a snort- ing and a bellowing, and ran for sale- ty, The hippo remained until hun- dreds of people were staring wide. eyed with astoaitshtmyut; then retreat. ed into the thicket. Undoubtedly this adventurous beast had wandered trom the Umtolosl sanc- tuary. near Lake St. Lucia. mttalattd --the last known breeding place ot the hippo within the borders of the Union. At iirst she was named Billy by correspondents who rushed to the spot, but it was as Hubert'the Hippo that she became a national character. She moved first in the direction ot Durban. As she approached the-city she passed through areas which grew more and more thickly populated with every mile. Naturally, the sensation she caused was enormous. As she approached Durban. which is one of the largest cities in South Afri- ca, the excitement grew. "Hubert on His War," said the headlines (they thought she was a bull then), and peo- ple waited eagerly to see where the animal would make its next appear- ance. Ot course. had it been neces- Barr, an organized h tttt could have put an end to her career then and there. But by this time Huber , was a public character. She "ad roused the amuse- ment, even the election. ot the entire population. It had bten proved that she was quite harmless. Occasionally she charged people who were too itt. quisltlve. South Africa), Hippo Passes From the day ot her ttrat appear- ance until her death Huberta was a marked hippo. After she had startled the Plantation workers at Gueiderland she quickly achieved notoriety. An enterprising ‘ress photographer Went out among the sugar-cane. but when he leveled his ‘camera Huberta charged him. . It was not until after her death that the mistake about her sex was dis- covered. aw! she was renamed Hit. berta. Curious crowds flocked to see her. As they grew larger they annoyed Hu- berta more and more, and tittally she moved oft. From that moment began her journeyinga, which were to last two years and make her the most ta- mous hippo that ever lived. An unwelcome Visitor into contact with civilization. She made a wide detour and was not heard ot again until she reached the coast twenty miles south of Durban. Jour- neying on, she cnme to the mouth of the Umzimvubu River near Port St. John. There she settled down tor . time and lived happily in the river. But again her fetal curioeity got the better of her and one night she visited the village of Port St. John. A town counselor, so it in said. van crossing the square to a meeting. He "ahed his electric torch in front ot him end BMr the yawning mouth ot n hippo. He did not attend the meeting! Huberta. will always be remembered with "eetion in South Africa. To the natives the Mutred carcass will remain an object ot awe tar generations. While she lived they qulckly surround- ed her with lsgends. To many ot them she was the reincarnation of one of the great chiefs of tho past who had come back to earth to end the Bantu Nation to the greatness that once was theirs. Every paper in South Africa pub- lished an obituary. Museums qua:- reled tor the right to preserve her hide. There was I poirulargrutcrr against the unknown marknmen who had shot her. Eventually, tour men made voluntary confusion. They were charged under tho game In" and tined $125 each. Wheelbarrow: Ihould have legs: eighteen inches long. nccordlng to , British experts in industrial health '1 research. ', Then one day . farmer reported to the magistrate at Peddie, lieu King William's town, that he had seen I dead hippo in the river. Men went to the spot and, with eighteen oxen and chains, hauled out the body. it wan Huherta, with bullet holes above her eyes. She was a full grown' cow hippo 9 feet , inches In length and with n girth ot ' feet 1 inch. She must have weighed nearly tour tone. Huherta's odyssey now became I less pleasant one. The Bloomtonteln Zoo had sent a party out to capture her alive. They were hard upon her tran. But Huberta by this time had lived upon the fringes of civilintion tor nearly two years. She had de- veloped amazing cunning. She passed through areas inhabited by natives and they law not. the least sign at her. Hubert: sat down in the Iqutre and soon the entire population ot the vii. iage turned out to see her. " Im the most exciting thing tint ever hap- pened in Port St. John or in ever like- ly to happen there. Hubert: bore the shouting ot men and women and the barking of dogs for halt an hour. Then she left Port St. John never to return. Her wanderings had begun again. Mrs. Osborn of London. Eng- land. enters her Irish waiihottttd in the Richmond champion do: Show. ONTA 1lyotfhmmd, my RIO AREHIV: TORONTO ‘ili together. sliding with s mighty ,spissh into the swirling utters below; but rather with s disconcerting hsbit In! (slim down pieoonesi. For ex- s-pie. the iMtoottttttettttrr, dwellers otrthe bridge witnessed more then their shsre ot such unsettling experi- ences: for in the year 14tt s stone ('i'll'l' end s tower st the Southwsrk end of the bridge subsided with it: arches into the river, and later in the same century s house on the bridge just doubled up its timbers sud ieli. depositing " utonished family in the Thsmes. Hence the rhyme cannot be gaimsaid. " simply does not tell, per- haps, the,whoie story. Proudent ot Iii the dun ot old Low don Bridge were those ot Queen Elin- beih'o reign, when the richest Inor- lchanu of London lived there-wh" the narrow roadway wu linked with l iinbered houses, indeed almost rooted over by them. ma the Elizabetha- merchant and his dune so desired. they might haw lived In [hair owl houno on the bridge. port-an. new; the dnniing. many-windowed Nonsuch Home. and maintained them-elven comfortaby by trading only at such shops to were clustered clonely about . them. l " seems thst the more which any lported the bridge were ruined upon "plttttorrms. called “starlings." built of strong elm piles and covered by thick planks. which were boiled together. There being a com. dershlo number of ithese surlings. it in resdiiy realised how they hindered the movement: ot ee',':,', who would pass upstream. The ,neceulty ot “shooting the bridge" " Icsme both s pastime sud s danger. because ot the normwnens ot the some between the sterlinr and the consequent compression ot the rivet wster in their vicinity. It swirled and eddied slsmiuly; the horsemen lubrieked warnings and clsmored for thel night ot way; such nandemouiu- prevailed that it in s marvel that dwellers upon the bridge could 8199' Io' nights. Not csring to Venture to It night on well in pointed out " once tint it wn no part ot the proud structure which tell. Thu was built " Sir JIIIOI Rennie unmet precinct one hundred you: no, and it in not ably oolld still. tor over it on. - time: in a “title lily 20.000 vehicle. and 100.000 persona. This lunch. how- ever, mun he admitted in all (sirloin: it bu never been weighted down with houses and n ounce. with mops and I chapel and nulwart gateways no we. the London Bridge which did service for all and n In" eettturi--ttt. bon- don Bridge which in invariably refer. red to when the name in carelessly "wed-ttte bridge which wan built by n monk. Peter ot ColeNturtrlt, in the twollth century. A great deal is new» sarily expected ot a bridge; but it seems unreasonable to demand that. in addition to its wormed duties, it support a street of crowded house“. "at -eidieattod sud ancient “we in perfectly right. More thu- om throughout the slow prom-Mon ot the cannula, London Bridge was quanta to all down. Not. of course. "shoot the Midge." Cardinal Wrtl.var, coming from down-strum]. always, land- ed, made his way around the budge by the shore. Minn- roturumg to the cool comfort of his stately barge Slowly, however, the brilliant, r-m of the hridge's career waned. Little by little changes crept tn: the Draw bridge Gate was Dullt'd down as "orlr an 1577 and Ister-much later, of Court" --the old buildings were removed no _shoer precaution of safety; than the (moo narrow roadway was Consider- ably widened. In 1776, the Inst of the gates disnppenred. London Bridge was no longer in " heydey; it wen Indeed no |onger supreme monarch at the river " London. tor n neighbor bridge hsd cone to he stunned nt Westminster. Then. 100 yenrs ago. " the - Iodern mchinery or (In! period wen brought to accomplish the building ottlle London Bridge which we know toanr-o bridge which ens [cruelly opened " King Willinnl W. Bttd Queen Adel-Me. " In. not qttito on the Mention! site ot Peter of Colo church'n long-lived structure; end - hope (he! is how tt hnpnens (hot. long otter, n close observer night hnvo dee- crihed ten of Peter'roriginni nrchen pull shelling guru over n civilization which he! (motion. melon Bridge swell - - hue inllen " the I" (on unless it but been "tud.-aE. We ’1. “The Christin Science Mottitor." the. with their cheering hue. and - the. with then- luvuoruun; Kindness Kladneu Bdda "locum“ to every- thing. It In “It“ which unh- um mum“ Hom- nu punt: And I" the while i. , Thomas flow- " Inparturtnbly on below. " can no heed to the monotony ot daily tie. ing or to those (remnant annual-t Interruptions In the torn: or pageant; And tournamettta, revolution: nod pil- grlmageu. Yet the poet. Cowley. doo- crlbed the river as: Stopped by the house; of that won- dram urea. Which rises o'er the broad river ' A "et. And e popula- proverb hu it that “London Bridge wu made tor who men to go over. And tool- to so ttn- der." What the proverb mum. to in- ply was that "lo bridge. getting very much In the way ot the river.. inter- tered with ita natural and rightful eo- “vitieu. Is Falling Down” , ‘I